MissionEyes: Comic Hero

Mission Loc@l’s resident artist Rio Yañez speaks to Mission Comics and Art store owner Leef Smith about comic book stores, and of course the much anticipated release of Scott Pilgrim. If you don’t know Scott Pilgrim here’s a breakdown; he’s 23 years old and lives in a big city with his gay roommate. He’s in a band. He’s lazy. Sound like anyone you know??? Here’s Rio’s take on the Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley.

“So, as a Chicano artist, I’ve always appreciated the work of Bryan Lee O’Malley, who doesn’t really get recognized as an Asian-Canadian artist. I appreciate the kind of hybrid approach he takes to creating a mainstream work of art while also including a lot of cultural references that are very specific to the Asian-Canadian, and Asian-American experience . And of course there’s also quite a variety of references to Mexican culture in his series. There’s actually a Day of the Dead party in Volume 5, which I kind of dug.SEE VIDEO AND READ MORE HERE.